My friend Anna (@ohhhbetsy) told me I should spray paint it turquoise. Genius, I hadn’t even considered spray paint!

I saw this picture on Pinterest and it gave me the inspirational direction I needed:

Spray painting is my new favorite thing! It gives things an instant makeover, is inexpensive, and fairly simple. Here’s how we did it:

Picking the Colors

I wanted the exact same colors in the picture above. I was surprised however to find the fairly limited selection of spray paint colors available at the home improvement store. I expected lots more options. I wasn’t in the mood to wait and I didn’t even think about searching online (heaven forbid). In one quick Google search I did find this great site that has loads of color options: Krylon

My husband insisted that we didn’t need to spray the furniture down but I didn’t want little dust flecks and spider webs sealed into my furniture with spray paint. I sprayed all of the furniture down with the house and let it dry completely before we applied primer.

Prime It

We sprayed a light coating of primer on the chairs since they were all ready a red color that we wanted to hide completely.

Painting

In order to NOT spray paint our lawn a festival of colors (and to save our backs from hunching over) we put the chairs up on saw horses.

Finished Product

Voila! Indeed, this is the first time in my life I have felt like a DIY Goddess. Bust out the spray paint and you can too!

I would love to know how these have held up over the winter? We have a LOT of older pieces of wrought iron furniture and I really would love to have it professionally powder-coated, but I know that would be expensive- still it would take us easily 2 or 3 weekends to do all of the pieces we have…

They’ve held up surprisingly well and I haven’t even stored them with a cover or in my garage over the winter. They have just been in the back yard covered in snow all winter. Of course I recommend covering them for the winter (we live in Utah so we get lots of snow). But even uncovered they are looking great!

I saw these pained chairs on Pinterest and just love them. I have been trying to find these colors of paint, but have been unsuccesful Any chance you can tell me the names of the colors and if you used Krylon paint?
Thank you

I’m glad you commented! I had thought I came back and posted – but I didn’t! 🙂 I used Rust-Oleum “Painters Touch” spray paint. I selected all satin finsihes. Some of the colors I used were “Green Apple”, “Colonial Red”, and “Grape” I need to find the exact color for the blue and yellow I used (can’t find the old cans. The satin finish looks better in my opinion.